On April 29, 2026, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) held a webinar providing a look at how the agency is integrating ...

Trademarks and patents are tools of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that help inventors legally establish, protect and defend the products they make. A trademark is a phrase, word, design or ...

Sometimes it’s back to basics. This time, the simple difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) provides guidance. A trademark is a word, ...

A recipe patent and trademark do two different things in the business world. Each provides legal protection for a different aspect of a company's products and name, however one cannot substitute for ...

Yesterday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a trademark alert highlighting actions that the agency has taken ...

“The tension between patents and trade dress protection is most evident when the alleged trade dress (or aspects thereof) has been disclosed in a utility patent.” Patents and trademarks protect ...

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Applying for a patent or trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) comes with an unexpected risk —your mailing and email addresses become part of the public record.

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Are you afraid of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office? I was, when I began filing patent applications in the 1990s. All I knew was that I had an invention and patenting it was going to be extremely ...